BOY SCOUTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 7 December 1940, Page 10

BOY SCOUTS

GREY TROOP RE-FORMED. A meeting of those interested in scouting was held on Wednesday in the Scout Hall. Mr A. E. Kilgour presided over an attendance of 20 adults, and introduced Mr Mills, who is responsible for the re-forming of the local troop. The election of officers resulted: Chairman, Mr R. Sansom. Secretarytreasurer, Mr A. Sutherland (pro tern). Committee: Mesdames Dodd and Mills; Messrs Williamson, McCauley, H. Smith, H. Russell and Gardiner. It was decided that Scout Headquarters be notified of the position so far, and that Mr Mills be recommended as scoutmaster and Mi’ D Moore as assistant.

Committee meetings were set down for the. first Wednesday in each month.

As the Commissioner had left the district, it was resolved that inquiries be made from Headquarters regarding the position, and, if it is now vacant, that Mr A. Sutherland be recommended, and that the Hokitika Committee be asked for their support of the nomination; Mr Kilgour and Mr Laing did not seek re-election. A vote of thanks was 'passed for their services as chairman and secretary. They thanked those present, and trusted that the troop will meet with every success. BRAVERY REWARDED.

WELLINGTON, December 7. The silver medal for gallantry of the Boy Scouts’ Association has been awarded to Scout lan Peach (Taumarunui). It is announced that the Dominion Chief Scout, Lord Galway, has approved the award. Peach, who is aged 14, during floods in the King Country in February, plunged into the Wanganui River, and swam with a lifeline 150 yards, to a man in a very dangerous position. The boy succeeded in reaching him and made fast the line and returned safely along it, accompanied by the man he had saved. .. Making the recommendation for the award, Scout officials pointed out that to swim 150 yards in a flooded river was no mean feat, even for a grown man. The Cornwell decoration, awarded in October, to Scout Stanley Cole, Wellington, was presented to him in the presence of Scout leaders, by the Governor-General, at Government House.